Attended a sneek peak of The Great Raid which is based on the Army Ranger raid on the Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philipinnes.
Look, I could go into typical film-review stuff about acting, cinematography and so on but about two minutes into the movie I wanted to shout at the Surrenderistas in the media, "Shut the hell up about Abu Graib and Guantanamo Bay!" Until we get reports of prisoners being murdered, being burned alive or hung in the sun by one arm, just shut the hell up. There is no equvialence between starving to death and needing bigger jeans because prison food made you fat.
We tend to forget that at the time of World War II the Japanese and the Germans had some traits in common: unspeakable beastly brutality and intolerable racism. The Germans have (rightly) suffered for their acts but the Japanese have been treated more kindly by history, except by those who lived through it.
This is not a movie about American greatness. It is about civilization facing down it's vicious unyeilding enemies. The Japanese did not attempt to subjugate the entire Pacific because they were misunderstood or offended by percieved slights from Western democracies. It was because they thought they could get away with it and until free men stood up against their onslaught they were right.
During the credits the audience stayed quietly, respectfully, in their seats then with equal reverence filed out without comment to each other until reaching the hallway in honor of the brave deeds depicted in the film. The kind of deeds those crying loudest against our own country could never perform.
In the car afterwards, the Spousal Unit said, "Thank you for insisting on going to this movie. I loved it."
I loved it, too. See for yourself then tell the Surrenderistas to shut the hell up.